They're at the other end of that fishing line.

Microsoft has been a predatory monopoly.

Yeah, never blame Corporate America for insisting upon a system that works well when filing documents with other companies.

Or are you proposing a complete revamp of every company across the nation to use a kind of affirmative action program when procuring office equipment?

"Free enterprise" worships those.

(One could purchase another operating system, it just wouldn't work with most of 'em.)

You can also decide to take a sailing cruise across the Atlantic. If you want to go faster, take a diesel. Still not fast enough, try TWA. Faster still? Concorde’s available.

You get what you buy. If you want to be a Mac-rebel, by all means take the sail boat. After all, its' a free enterprise system.

Dan